Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

- Mizner, Wilson

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

11.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

34.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

44.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca